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South Africa’s First Technology recently unveiled a range of software products aimed at enabling small and medium sized local enterprises to steer e-business initiatives. Taking into account South Africa’s bandwidth constraints and business requirements, First Technology has developed three products aimed at enabling small and medium enterprises to rev up their e-business potential. These solutions […]

Seattle’s RealNetworks Inc. Thursday said it will cut its staff by 15 percent, about 140 jobs, in an effort to rein in costs. The company said it anticipates a third quarter charge of between $4 million and $5 million due to the restructuring. “I regret that the economic slowdown has required these changes, and I […]

Damian V. Rinaldi META Group research suggests that while Java will continue to evolve as part of the standard infrastructure for e-business applications, it will face increased competition from Microsoft’s .Net online operating platform. We expect Java and .Net to battle for supremacy in the Web services space. www.metagroup.com Java is reaching stability and maturity, […]

JNI(R) Corporation today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2001, and provided a second quarter summary and a second half 2001 focus. According to JNI, Net revenues for the second quarter were $23.1 million, a sequential increase of 9% over $21.1 million for the first quarter of 2001, in line with […]

Western Digital Corp. today reported fourth quarter revenues of $456.0 million and a net loss of $9.0 million, or $.05 per share, before nonrecurring items. The results include an operating profit of approximately $2.8 million and unit shipments of 5.3 million by the Company’s hard drive business. Including nonrecurring charges of $52.2 million, the total […]

InterSAN(TM), an applications-based Storage Area Management (SAM) software vendor, today announced it will integrate its software with information storage systems from EMC Corporation. According to InterSAN, its software integrates with EMC’s networked storage by managing the relationship between an application, its storage, and everything in between with the goal of reducing total cost of ownership. […]

ManagedStorage International, Inc., a global storage solutions provider, this week announced the appointment of Tom Major as its vice president of marketing. According to the company, Major helped define and market Hewlett-Packard’s storage offerings and its OpenView e-services and IT operations software offerings.During his 19-year career with Hewlett-Packard, Major was responsible for developing its global […]

Seagate Technology Inc. this week announced that it will deliver the Cheetah X15 36LP for implementation into Compaq Computer Corporation’s ProLiant(TM) servers, AlphaServer systems, and StorageWorks enterprise storage solutions. According to Seagate, Compaq is first to adopt Seagate’s Cheetah X15 36LP disc drive. “Compaq’s enterprise and e-business customers expect the ability to move data at […]

DataCore(TM) Software, a provider of storage virtualization and networking software, this week announced that Bell Microproducts has joined DataCore Software’s reseller network as its first distribution partner. This agreement will allow Ontario-based Bell Microproducts to provide and support DataCore’s SANvantage(TM) storage solutions program, enabling resellers to cost-effectively roll out storage area networking (SAN) solutions. According […]

Hewlett-Packard Company this week announced plans to expand its networked storage offerings based on the emerging iSCSI standard. According to HP, the Storage on Ethernet (SoE) initiative will complement its Fibre Channel solutions and provide customers the choice to implement storage area networks (SANs) through an Ethernet, a high-speed local area network media, and TCP/IP […]

Companies have been wondering how to tap into the marketing potential of mobile phones since they fell beneath the size of a brick. With the advent of SMS, the potential is staggering. Local company ActiveSMS believes it has the model that it takes to turn SMS into cash. It’s a simple model: people opt-in to […]